Lighting device



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

R. F. COOKE.

LIGHTING DEVICE. No. 326,852. Patented Sept. Z2, 1885.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEY (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

R. P. COOKE.

LIGHTING DEVICE.

NO- 326.852- Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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WITNESSBSI y i INVENTOR QW@ ggf M Maf/7 5%@ ATTORNEY UNTTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT F. COOKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HORACE HOLDEN, OF EAST ORANGE, NET JERSEY.

LIGHTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,852, dated September 22, 1885. Application tiled December 29, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom may concern.-

Beit known that I, ROBERT F. COOKE, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match-Cases, of which the following is a specication.

Figure I represents a longitudinal section of my improved match case on an enlarged scale. Fig. lI is au outside view of the case. The other figures are details referred to in the following specification.

Similar letters represent similar parts in all `the figures.

Into asuitable casing, A, a tube, B, is inserted, made to slide easily in the same, and closed at its lower end by a cap-piece, C, screwed upon the same. In the case a small projection, a, is provided, and a long slot, b, is made in the tube B, Fig. IV, in which the projection a works,to prevent the tube Bfrom !y turning and to regulate the amount of its moi tion. The upper end of this tube B is made funnel-shaped, as at c, and has a smaller tube, B', corresponding to the size ofthe match attached. To the outside of this tubo B a spring-rod, D, with a small sharp point, d, at its upper end, is attached. (See Fig. lll.)

To the upper end ofthe case A asmall tube, A', is attached, to which a tube, F, is fastened. This tube F, Figs. V and VI, which is of sufficient size to allow the tube B to pass freely through it, is provided with a slot, a, extending the whole of its length, to allow the free passage of the spring-rod D, and has two spring-rods, E E, opposite each other attached to its outside. The upper ends of these springrods are made dat and project through suitable openings into the tube F, nearly meeting at its center. To the upper end of this tube F sharp spring-points G, Fis. Iand Vll, surrounding the tube F, except at the place where i an opening islett for the spring-rod D to pass, g are Securely attached, the points all pointing toward the center. A removable cap, H, is arranged at the upper end of the case A, inclosing these spring-points.

The tube B is lled with suitable matches,

(fully described in another application for a patent, led December 29, 1884, Serial N o.

MIAS-1,) N, attached to each other by a 5.:

string, so that the matches will be gradually pulled out of the case B. The manner in which these matches are arranged, tied together, and packed afterward into a cartridgecase is shown in Figs. VIII and IX, where in Fig. Vlll they are shown side by side, and in Fig. IX atop view as hinged together in the case. Vhen one of the matches has been pushed past the points G and ignited,the next match N is supported upon the flat ends of the spring-rods E E. The tube B being then pulled downward to its fullest extent will bring the pointed end of the spring-rod D below the bottom ofthe match N, supported upon the ends ofthe spring-rods E E, and which said rods will prevent said match being pulled downward by the downward movement of the tube B, while by that operation another one of the matches contained in said tube B will be drawn upward. The pointed end of the spring-rod D will fasten itself against the bottom of the match N by the up ward motion of the tube B and B', to which said rod D is attached, and thus push the match N upward between the sharp points G,

l thereby igniting the same.

As before stated, the matches are attached to each other by a string, in consequence of which, while the match N is pushed upward through the sharp points G, the next match will force the spring-rods E E apart to allow it to pass, and comes then above the dat ends of said spring-rods to be supported by the same ready for the neXt operation.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a suitable case, A, the sliding tubes B B, with spring-rod D, the tube F, with spring-rods E E, and the sharp-pointed projections G, the whole being arranged to operate in combination with matches attached to each other by a string, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

ROBERT F. COOKE. Vitnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, HORACE HOLDEN. 

